One sister is in the medical field, has to live out east bc she could only get a job at MassGen (her specialty is nonexistent out here); sister who is in early education had to go to CT to get a job. My BIL is in construction and spends half the year unemployed. I’m a teacher in a district of about 500 staff, 25+ of us will be laid off next month because the district can’t afford to pay us. Meanwhile, I can’t keep a steady GP because my medical provider’s offices keep closing, first the one in Wilbraham, then Westfield, so now I’m stuck going to Springfield with my third different doctor who is impossible to get an appointment with because the few doctors who did stay in the area have too many patients.

Houses isn’t the problem. I’ve live in western MA my whole life, but I and all my siblings had to move away from home because there are no jobs available in our home region. Even in my new region, there’s a shortage of healthcare and jobs.

Do not come on over, we don’t have the jobs or resources to support you.

Yeah, NO.

For the same reason people want permanent DST…because if you start work earlier in the day, then you finish earlier and that’s more of the day(light) left for you to do whatever you want.

You wouldn’t get daylight in the winter waking up at 4am anyway? In standard time, winter sunrise is around 7am or later (which is when PLENTY of people are waking up/heading to school or work)…if we were in DST in the winter, sunrises would be as late as almost 8:30 for some areas, and most people need to be awake and at work before then.

Why? The economies of the tri-state area of MA/CT/NY are deeply intertwined and many people who work in one state live over the border in another. Why should they be switching time zones?

It’s not “winter” time, it’s STANDARD (you know, as in regular or normal) time and it’s what sleep experts agree is better for our natural circadian rhythms.

And on the flip side, the latest sunrise in January in my neck of the woods was 7:19. If we had been in DST, that would’ve been 8:19. My work begins at 8am.

And on the flip side, having extra daylight late at night tricks your body into thinking it’s earlier than it is and you take longer to go to sleep (which is why the experts who proposed the act said people lose an average of 30 something minutes of sleep per night during DST).

There was also a competing bill called the Save Our Sleep Act that proposed making standard time permanent instead if we were to do away with switching.

No thank you. I’m frequently in CT and NY and I don’t feel like jumping time zones every time I take a day trip.

When I’m near Pittsfield, I go to Market32. They have an awesome produce section.

The benefit under the current method of biannually changing the clock is that we don’t have 8:30 sunrises in the winter (this is good, it’s proven we need daylight to fully awaken) but can also have 9:00 sunsets in the summer (this is unnecessary and actual bad for your health, it tricks your body into staying up later).

Most sleep experts agree that we should be in year-round standard time, and there was a bill proposed called the “Save Our Sleep Act” that would have done this.

It technically is, but OP asked for “safest places to live to raise a family”…that’s not Pittsfield. Especially the family part…I definitely wouldn’t send my kids to the Pittsfield schools.

You did see that’s in Pittsfield, right?

I’m in western MA…condos are $300k, a decent house is $500k+…they weren’t three years ago, and then everyone fleeing Boston & NYC came here and drove up our prices.

Drug dealers make a choice to sell poison, they should be punished for that choice; sex offenders should be punished for their choices too.

And if someone sold your kid heroin and they od’ed, I’d bet you’d vote “not guilty” because that was the kid’s choice, right? And I never said sex offenders don’t deserve to be in prison, only that drug dealers and murderers deserve worse.

There’s a reason the law differentiates between homicide and manslaughter.

Pharmacist dispense medicine.

That’s not murder.

Murders should be executed, preferably in the way they killed their victim. Drug dealers should be charged as attempted murders, if one of their “customers” dies of an OD, the dealer’s method of execution should be the same.

Granville Harvest Fair happens every Columbus Weekend.

Depends on the employee’s history. There are certainly people on probation there due to taking too many days to WFH now.